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Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009

Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009(0)

December 6, 2008

Between December 6th to January 7, Riehlife goes on holiday as Janet travels to Ghana, a place she lived and worked for several years in the 1970s. This trip will be far more simple than her August trip to Southern Africa.
Because I’ll only be staying in two locations, I’ll be taking a few [...]

Riehlife off to Ghana on African Holiday…back in 2009
Identity: Report from Kenya, by David Zarembka

Identity: Report from Kenya, by David Zarembka

It seems that humans, in order to deal with the mass of humanity they encounter, need to organize the masses by reverting to labeling people through identity. I don’t know if this is genetic or a learned behavior (clearly the details are very much learned), but it is the root of much of the problems [...]

Election 2008: Where were you election night? Susan Eleuterio was in Chicago’s Grant Park not that far from the stage.

As we got closer to Grant Park, a friend from Oregon called and said she just wanted me to hold my phone up when Barack spoke so she could hear him. The lines of people snaked up Michigan Avenue; by now it was 9:45 p.m. and my daughter was sure we were too late. About [...]

Election 2008 Congratulations from Ghana. Time for Change by Rod McLaren, Development Chief of Edubiase

Rod McLaren, a native Canadian whose formal title in Ghana is Nana Akwasi Amoako Agyeman, Edubiase Nkosuohene. Which means he is a Development Chief of Edubiase. He owns the African Rainbow Resort in Busua Beach where I’ll be staying 2 weeks when I visit Ghana for the month of December. I connected to him through [...]


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